Streptococcus Pneumoniae

ORLANDO — Combining urine antigen tests for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophilia could result in significantly less plastic and paper waste, as well as fewer carbon dioxide emissions, researchers reported at SHEA Spring.

Nearly half of all Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected from U.S. adults as part of a large study were resistant to at least one drug, researchers found.

In the summer of 2016, an outbreak of anthrax in the Russian Arctic that left dozens of people hospitalized and one 12-year-old boy dead was blamed on the thawing carcass of a reindeer that had died in the area’s previous anthrax outbreak in 1941.

Serotypes included in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV13, continued to cause nearly 25% of invasive pneumococcal disease, or IPD, among children in the United States years after the vaccine’s introduction, according to research published in Pediatrics.

A mass drug administration, or MDA, of azithromycin remained effective at reducing child mortality in the 3rd year of its implementation in Niger, according to a cluster-randomized trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.